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Inside a U.S. Embassy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Inside a U.S. Embassy

Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.

The Ultimate Gift
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

The Ultimate Gift

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-01
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  • Publisher: Revell

What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom his great-uncle Stevens believed might be the last vestige of hope in the family. "Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire." What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless tale to heart.

Embassy Academy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Embassy Academy

Who knew that the first day at a new school could be deadly? Embassy Academy, the elite school I'm being shipped off to wasn't made for girls like me. It was made for outspoken kids of the political elite. When the resident mean girl is killed on my first day, the whispers get louder. They're looking for someone to blame. Me.

Embassy Wife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Embassy Wife

"A smart, sparkling novel that is one part social satire, one part travelogue . . . Comical and cool.” —Oprah Daily In Katie Crouch's thrilling novel Embassy Wife, two women abroad search for the truth about their husbands—and their country. Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually th...

The Embassy of Cambodia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 49

The Embassy of Cambodia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-07
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith. 'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming . . . ' First published in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of C...

Embassy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Embassy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-31
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Arman Lance was supposed to travel the galaxy with his father, not watch him die. He was supposed to experience the adventures from his father's stories, not isolate himself from the world. He was supposed to join the Embassy Program, fly across the galaxy, and find Ladia Purnell, the girl he fell in love with years before. Clinging to his fading hopes and dreams, Arman joins the Embassy to fulfill that last promise. He knows if he finds Ladia again, he'll be happy. But on this journey, he'll discover there is more to life than chasing a desperate obsession. There are opportunities to be taken, choices to be made, and a story to be told.

Embassy of the Dead: Hangman's Crossing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Embassy of the Dead: Hangman's Crossing

Jake is in a race against time to foil a demon-riddled plot to destroy earth—what a way to start his new job at the Embassy of the Dead! The second book of this spookily funny trilogy. In return for helping Stiffkey the ghost pass into the Afterworld, Jake Green has been awarded an official position at the Embassy of the Dead, a job he didn’t ask for and, to be honest, doesn’t necessarily want. But saying no to the Embassy isn’t really an option, so now Jake must journey even deeper into the mysterious world of ghosts. What should be a routine Undoing takes a turn when Jake overhears a plot to destroy the very fabric between the worlds of the living and the dead. Can he do the impossible and stop the terror that creeps in the Eternal Void? With the help of his ghostly gang—hockey stick–wielding Cora and Zorro the fox—he’s going to try. Hijinks from beyond the grave will tingle readers’ spines and tickle their funny bones as the Embassy of the Dead trilogy continues.

Take The Key And Lock Her Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Take The Key And Lock Her Up

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-26
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

The third and final instalment in the thrilling Embassy Row series. Grace has discovered that she's the lost princess of Adria ... but some people would prefer she stay lost. With her brother's life hanging in the balance and secret assassins everywhere, life on Embassy Row has never been more dangerous. Praise for Ally Carter: Ally Carter is an author that you simply can't miss. - Gripped into Books Gallagher Girls books have real heart, pushing strength and sisterhood over sass, with super wit and humour too... brilliant. ***** Books for Keeps Absolutely unputdownable and completely gripping... everything that fans of this series will have been waiting for... 10/10... an incredible series ...

All Fall Down
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

All Fall Down

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-05
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Praise for Ally Carter: Ally Carter is an author that you simply can't miss. - Gripped into Books Gallagher Girls books have real heart, pushing strength and sisterhood over sass, with super wit and humour too... brilliant. ***** Books for Keeps Absolutely unputdownable and completely gripping... everything that fans of this series will have been waiting for... 10/10... an incredible series in which each book gets better and better. The Guardian Ally Carter has done it again! From the story to the cover, everything about All Fall Down is exciting and sure to keep you on your toes! http://sassyanddangerous.blogspot.mx/ Product Description: I don't mean to get into trouble. Trouble just sort o...

The Very Best Of Rabindranath Tagore - Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

The Very Best Of Rabindranath Tagore - Short Stories

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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Considered as one of the most sensitive and creative writers of his times, Rabindranath Tagore elevated the genre of short stories to an art-form. Most of his stories revolve around the life in rural and urban Bengal, beautifully portraying intricate aspects of the nature of society and the people in it. Tagore's style merged stark realism with poetic idealism. One can find this reflecting in over a hundred short stories written by him. Known as a prolific writer from Bengal, his poems became famous and appreciated across the globe as they carried a message of India's spiritual heritage. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian to be awarded a Nobel laureate when he won the Nobel Prize fo...